Friday, March 03, 2006

Tired

Man was made at the end of the week's work, when God was tired. -Mark Twain

I left the hospital this morning all full of vim and vigor, energetic in the morning sun, ready to come home and write the usual Friday update - all the knitting along excitement that's been going on since the Olympics.

And then I got home, sat down, and all the tired from a week of overnight shifts in the ER caught up with me. No knitting updates today. I'm too tired to knit. I'm too tired to even think about knitting.

For you interested medical types, however, I did an awesome lumbar puncture last night - a thing of beauty, straight in, right on the first try - not my first, but definitely my best.

For anyone interested, if your only injury is getting hid in the head with an ice cube, please take pity and don't come to the ER. Thanks.

Your regular knitting updates will resume after some sleep, because there actually is much knitting goodness these days, including some new stuff.

10 Comments:

Good job on the LP! I used to work in a neurologist's office, where they did about one LP a year, so weren't all that great at it, and I used to have to be the one holding the patient's hand while they were tortured... when I had my c-section the thing that scared me the most was getting the epidural - but you know, get someone who knows what they're doing and it's a piece of cake!

Just remember there are always your friendly anesthesiologists over in the OR who can do a blood patch for the post-dural puncture headache if need be! LOL I know, because I am one of those anesthesiologists who almost exclusively do blood patches on the ED and radiology post-LP patients!